Love

I have the smallest size bottle which can fit in my handbag. This is an interesting fragrance. I have never smelled Black Opium so I can't compare it to that one the way everyone else who has smelled Black Opium does. To me this is a sweet but mature womanly evening formal fragrance, sexy and classy, fruity-floral musk. It does not make a statement but it is very different from most celeb fragrances. It's just a very warm and elegant scent that I wish could last longer. The sillage and longevity could be better. At the first spray, I picked up the fruity maracuya note. It's a passion flower or passion fruit that is native to Brazil and South America including also Central America i.e. Costa Rica. If you're familiar with this fruit and flower you will definitely detect something that is trying to recreate that scent. It's both fruity and floral, like a sweet berry and floral mix. The berry is delicious. It comes through as girly sweet in the way that the Victoria Secret perfumes are like i.e. think Bombshell. In fact the opening is similar and shares notes of red berries and PASSION FRUIT the same passion fruit (maracuya) note that is in this scent. It's delicious but this is more like putting your nose to the flower and the fruit and a real strong pairing of both the fruit and the floral aroma. The floral heart consists of what I detect as a jasmine and some other white floral note in the background; I think the magnolia. The orris root or iris is also clearly there giving it a powdery body. But it's not too powdery either; slightly floral powdery. The flowers are faint and way in the background. The real flower that stands out in this perfume is the passion flower in the fruity top note. The scent stays strongly fruity floral for a while until you reach the dry down stage. By this time the scent has stopped being so fruity loud and calmed down becoming a gourmand mix with praline and a warm coffee scent. The praline is smooth and nutty but not the big player. There may be a warm dark vanilla or tonka bean in this but it's also not a big player. The coffee note is the key to the dry down. The coffee is more like the ground coffee that is not yet a drinkable liquid; like putting your nose to the ground coffee itself. The musk is very strong and it is cozy and warm. Like your skin but warmed up with musk. I don't detect any other base notes. Maybe a touch of wood somewhere down there but it is primarily a musk dry down. Smells beautiful. This is a winter and fall scent and asks you to put on a sexy black cocktail dress or romantic formal wear. The scent is definitely for women over the age of 30. I think at times it may be unisex in the way some fragrances like Tom Ford can be unisex or Alien by Mugler but to me the top notes are so much like Victoria Secret Bombshell that it makes this to lean more feminine than unisex. It's exotic, sweet, musky and very much a perfume that if you smell it on someone you'll want to get to know that person better. A very good 'smell me and date me' fragrance. I am wearing it tomorrow at a date on the first day of the year. Happy New Year. You gotta try this!

I mistook this for Sofia, ha ha ha awkward. Sofia has a lovely opening but after 3 hrs I smell like a dude. I cant wear Lancome's LVEB and I hate with passion Flowerbomb as they both cause me nausea - cloying nightmares. Love's powdery drydown also is very close to Can Can but Can Can is cloying, flat to me, I cant wear it makes me dizzy. Love is indeed love at first spray, opens up smelling like a slightly sour, sweet,yet fresh, not-so-dark Black Opium, the EDT, which is alittle crisp on me. The sweetness of the EDP is here too, less dark like I said. Good BO dupe but takes it on a whole other level, it brings something new. After 30mins Love completely changes on me and it smells like the 90s Barbie dolls, that addicting almost plastic sweetness that is so nostalgic to me - must stem from the candied passionfruit, aromatic orchid & the praline. This doll-like sweetness in Sensual Amber BBW and LVEB must be coming from the powdery Iris flower+plum/bergamot/black currant. Love lacks the spicy patch note so it is a softer, more youthful/playful scent compared to LVEB/Sensual Amber. The drydown gets very powdery on me and the amberwood gives its warmth. Its different, lighter than Can Can. The coffee on me stays pretty strong for 2+ hrs, but stays close to the skin -its rly good considering Idnt like the smell of actual coffee. Im very picky with sweet scents. Love performs better than both Black Opiums on me(the EDP disappears in 2 hrs and the EDT smells so plastic on me even tho I like it). Love makes me feel feminine and puts me in a good mood, it feels like walking on pink clouds in a white fuzzy sweater lol, thats the image I have. Sensual and intimate perfume as well. The mist has the colors that suit the fragrance, and its quite strong. Im not someone who can wear very powdery perfumes like LVEB, but Love is so versatile and wearable, perfect for chilly weather. More mature than Can Can, no plastic smell (no nausea). The perfume's bottle is elegant and feels great to the touch - sleek and majestic. I also love Tempting, id buy that next. These are high quality, they compete the big names and they win in my book.

Initially, this scent does indeed feel like a bit of a mash-up of modern popular gourmands; there's a bit of Black Opium, La Nuit Tresor and even La vie est belle in there. So reviewers who have already pointed this out are spot on. Once you get over this initial Deja Vu stage, I must admit that this scent is the gourmand lover's dream. Everything's in there. Initial fruity freshness check, praline check, rich vanilla base check. Caramel isn't listed in the notes, but I swear there is a caramel undertone in there too. This is a comforting, rich, attractive scent; the initial spray didn't bring tears of joy to my eyes, but I find myself craving this more and more. I feel attractive wearing this and it makes me want to snuggle with my own self. It's just a familiar, uncomplicated scent that brings me comfort and joy. If what you're after is an inexpensive cool weather scent that gives you this sort of feeling and don't mind compromising for something that lacks in originality, I think this scent is perfect. EDITED TO ADD: after having had some more time to enjoy this on multiple different occasions, I must say that it has become one of my all time favorites. I keep reaching for it and I must say that while it has the same vibe as many modern gourmands, I have come to the realization that there's nothing quite like it that I know of. It fits any occasion, it never gets cloying and it's just all around perfect. SECOND EDIT: so I've had this is my collection for about nine months, and I just had to say this: when I go back to this scent after not having reached for it for some time, I'm always shocked at how decadent and mouth watering it is. Every time, my eyes just roll back in ecstasy. I can count the fragrances I've had this happen with on the fingers of one hand. I'll keep buying this as long as they keep making it.

This is a nice fragrance that I find very, very similar to Jimmy Choo's JC perfume. Pretty much identical, except for being 'slower'. The SV tones reveal themselves slower, one by one, and then fully bloom into the same JC scent, while the latter opens up all at once. It is a pleasant perfume but very unoriginal and typical, synthetically sweet. I did not detect any coffee or cocoa until I sprayed a lot and stuck my nose to my wrist - it's there, but something more akin to the smell of supermarket chocolate pudding, a mild, milky cocoa-ish whiff. Nothing strong, like Boss Perfect Accord (YouTube Jeremy's favourite)- that one smells like cocoa and dark chocolate indeed. I detected no passionfruit whatsoever. Just patchouli (?) and tons of sweet, the same base as in LVEB and Jimmy Choo. Very warm, I think it would perform fantastically in winter, as it's warm and sweet. The bottle looks nice, but only in photos or from afar. Up close it gives the impression of plastic rather than heavy glass, and it's a pity since it does have a beautiful design. Has very good lasting power on me, about 5 hours. It is a good celebrity fragrance, very strong, a little bit pungent (I dislike the common note with Choo, but I don't know what it is, it's detectable in La Vie Est Belle too). Projects well without being aggressive. If you want a cheap, relatively long-lasting and generally pleasant celebrity scent in line with today's scents du jour, go for this. If you can't decide on Jimmy Choo, try this one first, I think it could help! EDIT: As the weather got much colder - this feels stronger, with a far more pronounced sweet mandarin note than in summer. It smells like Black Opium (but almost no coffee note, maybe just caramel) and mandarin hard candy. Very beautiful and unexpected, but stronger caramel would have been nicer.

Sofia Vergara was born near the Caribbean Sea. Love is a distillation of scent memories from her world. Succulent fruits- exotic flowers- delicious coffee- vanilla and caramel treats. It's a combination that makes Love a very snuggly fragrance. Love opens with a burst of juicy passion fruit, crisp green apple, and fresh orange. It is all very sweet, and the sweetness persists throughout as the fragrance develops, from beginning to end. If you are a fan of sweet scents, you must try Love. Love is a true gourmand; it's a dessert tray in a bottle. After the fruit, you can easily detect the coffee- not a sharp coffee, but sweetened coffee- and caramel, which must be the praline mixed with the vanilla. This aspect of Love is very rich and deep. I am not partial to coffee in fragrances, but I think the note works very well in Love. It both harmonizes with and adds depth to the other aspects of the scent. The floral notes appear, and are also sweet, and stay somewhat in the background. Love makes you feel as if you are sitting in the middle of a busy outdoor market in the tropics. Vendors roll their laden carts full of temptations past you. On offer are creamy cakes filled with fruit puree, foamy sweet coffee drinks, and freshly made praline candy. A fragrant bouquet of blooms sits on your table as you survey the bounty, adding to the delightful mix of scents. On me, Love is fairly long-lasting- about four hours at least, though it becomes a lot softer during the dry-down. I can still smell it a good eight hours later in a subtle form. It's not expensive, so you can spray Love all day long. When I wear Love, I feel happy, and uplifted by the sweetness. I am transported to a land of warm breezes, bright flowers, and fragrant treats. These days- I think we can all use a little sweetness.